Caribbean Music (Student Episode)

Bienvenidos, bienvenidas, bienvenides. If you have been listening for a while, you might know that we usually release student work between semesters. We released three episodes during January and the final two will be released in February.

These episodes were fully created by the students in Rebecca's fall 2024 Survey of Caribbean Literature course. The students worked together in groups throughout the semester to create podcast episodes that reflected the literature, themes, and concepts we covered in the class. They researched the ideas that interested them the most and analyzed different forms of literature from the Caribbean including novels, short stories, poetry, songs, and film. They learned how to record, edit, and produce a podcast project that they could be proud of putting out into the world. 

Please let them know how you feel about their work by listening and sharing this episode. Give them a shout out on social media by tagging Latinx Visions on Instagram and BlueSky.

This episode was written, recorded, edited, and produced by Grace Ayodele, Thomas Ellenson, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Sovereign Mack, Clarisa Martinez, and Lesly Ramirez Melchor.

 

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Songs analyzed in this episode include:

• Una Velita, Bad Bunny
• Sin Aire, Rafa Pabón
• El Niágara en Bicicleta, Juan Luis Guerra
• Preciosa, Marc Anthony
• Africa Must Wake Up, Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley